I'm basically building from the ground up, since as far as I can tell there's no Java libraries for Hive. I'm down for it though, it means I get to learn a lot.

First question is the titular one, since that's the most immediately relevant for what I'm trying to do today. However it goes I'll need to parse a WIF key into a byte array.

I'm rolling right along with that, and I see Diffie-Hellman on the horizon.

I have another question too, if any of my valued Hive-Devs Community cohorts can answer it. Are all the elliptic curve domain parameters, like prime modulo and base point, the same as secp256k1 for Hive? In short, do we use that curve or a different one than Bitcoin?

One last thing. I know the chain ID used in transaction serialization for Steem was the 256 bit zero sequence, has that changed at all after the fork? If so what is the new chain ID for Hive?

Thanks for reading.

Answers to any of these questions, or links to such, would be greatly appreciated and very useful.